Summary: | The Sellman Family Papers span the years 1828 through 1908 with the bulk of the material dating between 1850 and 1865. The collection contains family and business correspondence; bills and receipts; guardianship documents; handwriting exercises; and household and farm account books and diaries. Subjects covered include daily life; farm management; the cholera epidemic in Grand Gulf, Mississippi; treatment of slaves; sale of crops in Baltimore; and the education of the Sellman children at home and at St. John's College in Annapolis. For more information, please see the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1770. |
Creator: | Harwood, Benjamin |
Century: | 2001-2100 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Maryland |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Anne Arundel County |
Temporal subject: |
1841-1850
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1851-1860
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Maryland |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Anne Arundel County |
Topical subjects: | Anne Arundel County (Md.) -- Genealogy |
1812--1866-- Correspondence |
ArchivesUM location: | Sellman Family papers
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Repository: | Historical Manuscripts |
Browse terms: | Personal and Family Lives |
Copyright holder: | Public Domain |
Collection: | Digital Collections |
Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the University of Maryland Libraries at http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/contact.jsp. |